In the eastern #Donetsk region, little has changed since the #fighting in 2014. Signs still warn about minefields. Concrete block buildings have only crumbled further in the years since they were shelled, and no one has come to tow away the cars hastily abandoned under gunfire. #Ukraine
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#Afghan forces battled Monday to stop a first major city from falling to the #Taliban following weekend offensives by the insurgents on urban centres in a sharp escalation. Taliban fighters assaulted at least three provincial capitals overnight -- Lashkar Gah, Kandahar and Herat -- after a weekend of heavy #fighting that saw thousands of civilians flee the advancing militants. FRANCE 24's Franz Marty tells us more.
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a mountainous landlocked country at the crossroads of Central and South Asia. Afghanistan is bordered by Pakistan to the east and south, Iran to the west, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan to the north, and China to the northeast. Wikipedia
Capital: Kabul Trending
Population: 38.04 million (2019) World Bank